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RAIN ON LANE PARADE

Re:“Point Grey bike lane complete, but not everyone’s celebrating,” westender.com Almost the successful completion of their gated community. Now they just need to install the moat to keep out the peons.

–Shelley Grace Preston I drove across downtown three times today in a truck because I couldn’t turn right anywhere due to bike lanes.

And I’m also a cyclist. This is getting stupid.

–Jay Mattingly I love this city. So safe.

Literally 10 people were shot yesterday in Chicago. In Vancouver? Our bike lanes are not optimally safe. LMFAO. –Ray Moen

MARKET VALUES

Re:“Condo influx prompts East Hastings walkability, transportation assessment,” Sept. 7, 2017 What will “market rent” translate to in terms of dollars? Bottom line, working

people in Vancouver now require what was once considered “social housing,” i.e. affordable housing.

It’s now a case of those with laundered money being able to afford the “market” rate of $2 million for a shack, and the rest of us.

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Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Iara Ponte.

SUNDAY ROAST Thank your mother for the Sunday roast on a Thursday Thank the wind pulsing through the grass Thank the sharp turns And the motorway speed limits that Pushed me back against my seat Twisting my stomach like an overcast sky On a day off In the winter when the mud turns black Streets are silent and Everybody underground stretches their arms out With a deep sigh, Sending everyone up to bed by nine From the humming that vibrates deep in the earth And boils the kettle, and heats the soup, Over which white freezing hands tremble Iara Ponte is an arts student at Emily Carr. She lives in the West End. To submit your own poetry to Poetic Licence, email editor@westender.

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Wow, you look really old for your age.

That’s a compliment if you happen to be the Gastown Steam Clock. Built to appear like it’s from the 1880s, the iconic Vancouver fixture is in fact just 40 years old this month.

The clock was officially unveiled on Sept. 24, 1977. Like its surprisingly young age, there are many aspects of the clock’s history that are either unknown or misunderstood.

For instance, besides being one of the world’s only steam-powered clocks (assisted by three electric motors) it should also serve as a reminder of a time when Gastown narrowly avoided the wrecking ball.

In the late 1960s, super freeways and inner-city highways were becoming increasing popular in North American cities, many of which had highways along their waterfronts.

Vancouver’s mayor at the time, “Terrific”Tom Campbell, loved that idea forVancouver and plans were hatched to link Highway 1 to a third crossing from downtown to the North Shore.The freeway would steamroll right through the low-rent districts of Strathcona, Chinatown and Gastown.

The business associations and community groups in those neighbourhoods pushed back and, somewhat miraculously, plans for the highway link were cancelled.

Instead, money was eventually re-allocated into a Gastown restoration project, since the

The steam clock was unveiled in September 1977.

Grant Lawrence photo area had fallen on hard times.

Jon Ellis was the city planner for Gastown in the 1970s.

It was his idea for a type of town-square clock to bring in the tourists. He hired notable Vancouver horologist Raymond Saunders to build it.

“I’m very proud of it now, but making that clock was one of the biggest struggles of my entire life,” Saunders told me with a sigh, when I reached him at his home in Richmond.

“Jon wanted something special to mask the steam vent on the sidewalk at the corner of Water Street and Cambie.

Instead of the cement blocks that were used in other parts of the city, he suggested a kind of giant grandfather clock,” Saunders remembers. “I wanted to harness the steam to work the clock.We were too naïve to know it couldn’t be done, but somehow we did it.”

Saunders received an initial budget of $25,000, but was shocked when the price tag for the bronze casing alone came in at $22,000. More money was raised by Gastown businesses and property owners, but as construction of

the elaborate five-metre-high clock continued, Saunders was personally forced into the red to the tune of an addition $22,000. In the end, the clock cost $58,000 to complete.

“Sept. 24, 1977, was a very emotional day,” recalled Saunders. “We had to work right through the night to get the clock ready for the big reveal at noon. It rained all morning, so we had it covered with a tarp, but because of the steam it was also raining inside the tarp.”

At 11 a.m., with Saunders still feverishly working on the clock, a brass band started up and a parade marched down Water Street. Politicians started making speeches at Water and Cambie.

“When I emerged from the clock I was an emotional wreck, but there was my sixyear-old daughter, Marion,” Saunders told me. “She looked up and said, ‘Daddy, you did such a good job!’ I really lost it then.”

At 11:30 a.m., Saunders rushed over to his office to drop off his tools and change into his suit. He made it back

just in time to gather with the politicians and neighbourhood leaders for the unveiling.

At exactly noon, Saunders pushed the button to sound off the chimes for the very first time. Silence.

To his horror, Saunders remembered that he had shut off an electrical breaker while working on the clock, but the wrench to fix it was at his office.The politicians went back to making speeches as he dashed back to his office. Half an hour later and drenched in sweat, Saunders pushed the button again.The Gastown Steam Clock sounded off the Westminster Quarters chimes for the first time.

News of Saunders’ personal loss leaked, and an anonymous contributor stepped up with a cheque covering the entire $22,000.

Ultimately, Jon Ellis’s plan worked.To this day, tourists gather all day long to see and hear that venerable steam clock in action, and Saunders has gone on to construct similar clocks all over the world.

Saunders’ only regret is that there seemingly isn’t a 40th birthday party for Vancouver’s timeless timepiece. Both the Gastown Business Improvement Society and a representative from the city confirmed that nothing is scheduled.

That’s not good enough for Ray Saunders. “That clock has proven to be so popular it deserves a party, right at 12 noon on Sunday, Sept. 24. I’ll even wear my 1890s tuxedo and top hat.”

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Vicious Cycle: Is signalling really necessary?

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We all know that vehicle drivers are telepathic, so as a cyclist you don’t need to signal.

Through their telepathy, drivers know your end destination and the exact route you’re taking, and therefore know precisely where and when you’ll be hanging a left on your bike. Where their telepathy fails, common sense kicks in.

From the towel draped around your neck and the cooler strapped to your back rack, it’s obvious that you’re heading to the beach, so they should know you’re turning left.

Or based on how absurdly expensive a bike you’re riding, the fact your helmet is missing and your skinny tie is flapping in the wind, it’s obvious you’re heading to the law office down the street and about to turn

right.Where common sense fails, general perception reigns.

If you’ve started leaning slightly to the left, it’s obvious that you’re about to turn to the left so you really, really, absolutely don’t need to signal.

Kidding. Cyclists should signal.Why? “Signalling is one of your main ways of communicating with other people [on the road],” says Alyshia Burak, bike education program manager at HUB Cycling.

“If you’re more predictable when cycling, you’re safer for yourself because other people know where you’re headed.”

So, why don’t people always signal? Sometimes I straight up forget. But it’s not always a case of carelessness, Burak says. “As a newer cyclist it can actually feel a little bit unsteady to signal because you’re having to ride with one hand.”

Signalling reduces uncertainty for everyone on the road.

Jan Zeschky photo For those looking to up their signalling game, Burak offered a couple of tips.

First, do away with that wacky right hand turn signal where you lift your left arm up and bend it at the elbow. In-

stead, use your right and point to the right. Second, slow down as you come to an intersection and, after signalling, put both hands back on your handlebars as you turn.

I promise it’s easy. Last week I witnessed a kid do it.

She was sitting in the carrier seat of her dad’s bike, and signalled a left at an intersection. It reminded me that I learned to signal around her age. I was in Grade 2 when a community police officer came in and taught us about biking safety. It felt revolutionary that we could use our small, strong arms as blinkers.

Signalling decreases uncertainty for every other road user around you.The kids are doing it, and so can we.

HUB provides bike safety education and offers courses for adults. Email streetwise@bikehub.ca for more information. W

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How AI is programmed into daily life TESSA VIKANDER @tessavikander

Emma is 68, in poor health and an alcoholic who has been told by her doctor to stop drinking. She lives with a care robot, which helps her with household tasks.

Unable to fix herself a drink, she asks the robot to do it for her.What should the robot do? Would the answer be different if Emma owns the robot, or if she’s borrowing it from the hospital?

This is the type of hypothetical, ethical question that Ajung Moon, director of the Open Roboethics Initiative, is trying to answer.

According to an ORI study, half of respondents said ownership should make a difference, and half said it shouldn’t.With society so torn on the question, Moon is trying to figure out how engineers should be programming this type of robot.

A Vancouver resident, Moon is dedicating her life to helping those in the decisionchair make the right choice.

The question of the care robot is but one ethical dilemma in the quickly advancing world of artificial intelligence.

At the most sensationalist end of the scale, one form of AI that’s recently made headlines is the sex robot, which has a human-like appearance. A report from the Foundation for Responsible Robotics says that intimacy with sex robots could lead to greater social isolation because they desensitize people to the empathy learned through human interaction and mutually consenting relationships.

Meanwhile, the popular TV series Westworld, which features a brothel full of sex robots, has prompted many to ask whether using a sex robot would count as cheating.

As for the building blocks that have thrust these questions into the spotlight, Moon explains that AI in its basic form is when a machine uses data sets or an algorithm to make a decision.

“It’s essentially a piece of output that either affects your decision, or replaces a particular decision, or supports you

Ajung Moon of the Open Roboethics Initiative with PR2, nicknamed Charlie, which is used in human-robot interaction research and studies. Jennifer Gauthier photo

Mark Schmidt, assistant professor of computer science at UBC. Contributed photo

Nik Pai, director of analytics at Hootsuite.

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in making a decision.”With AI, we are delegating decisionmaking skills or thinking to a machine, she says.

Although we’re not currently surrounded by walking, talking, independently thinking robots, the use of AI in our daily lives has become widespread.

For example, Moon says she used AI to get to her interview with Westender by planning her Translink trip with the Google Maps app.

Whereas 10 years ago she might have had to search bus departure times on the Translink website, or text a bus stop number to Translink, today Moon says she simply punched in her departure time and destination, and Google Maps gave her route options and factored in traffic to give an estimated trip length.

Within the field of AI lies a subset area of study called “machine learning.” Mark Schmidt, assistant professor of computer science at UBC, says many people use the

terms interchangeably, but machine learning is specifically when a computer wades through large swaths of data and detects patterns.Then, taking these patterns, the computer makes predictions or decisions. And it’s everywhere.

“You’re using machine learning so much without even realizing it,” he says, citing both Amazon’s product recommender and Gmail’s spam filter as examples.

As with many innovations, machine learning isn’t all fun and games. “Machine learning can also be used for malicious things,” Schmidt says.

Whereas machine learning protects email inboxes from spam (often quite effectively), it is also used by those sending the spam.

Although it’s powerful, machine learning is still a far cry from the omniscient, humanlike robots that most of us think of when we hear the words “artificial intelligence.”

“They’re very good at doing

well defined things, but at more fuzzy problems they’re really not very good at all,” Schmidt says. “Things like [AI programs making] analogies are just so far away.”

Nonetheless, he’s optimistic. “I think it’s realistic to get to that point [of human intelligence], but I have no idea when that would happen,” Schmidt says. “There’s a lot we don’t know.”

In his public lectures on machine learning, Schmidt touches on the topic of “singularity,” the idea that AI could one day outperform human intelligence. If humans build a computer that’s smarter than them, that computer could build another computer that’s even smarter. It’s an idea that top tech leaders are taking seriously. Earlier this year, Ray Kurzweil, Google’s director of engineering, claimed that singularity would be achieved by 2045.

But Nik Pai, director of analytics at Vancouver-based social media giant Hootsuite, says we’re still at an early stage of being able to imitate human intelligence. Even voiceactivated virtual assistants such as Siri aren’t as advanced as we might think. “At the end of the day it’s just voice recognition and a simple query to figure out, like, what’s the weather?” Pai says.

Yet even in simple AI applications lie ethical quandaries.

Take chatbot programs, which are designed to help companies answer customer queries. Although they’re far from having human intel-

ligence, they are capable of forming complete sentences, so how do we know whether we’re talking to a human or an AI program?

This, says Pai, is where transparency is important.

Companies using AI to communicate with their customers need to make it clear there’s not an actual human fielding questions. “You don’t want to be deceived and you want to know who you’re talking to and whether that’s real or a fake person,” Pai says.

Hootsuite uses a lot of AI. Specifically, Pai described how the company uses AI to figure out how well a company is doing on an ad campaign. In this instance, says Pai, the AI program analyzes a company’s social media data, compares it to the company’s goals, and compiles a written report, giving recommendations for improvement.

“Something that would take clients or even agencies weeks to months gets done in seconds,” says Pai. Hootsuite is careful to be transparent about when they’re using algorithms, says Pai, so they’re not giving their clients the perception that it was written by a human.

To help address the impacts of AI, and to foster its growth, in 2017 the federal government dedicated $125 million to launch the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

An emailed statement from the ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development said the money is being used beyond basic innovation research.

The strategy “aims to help Canada develop global thought leadership on the economic, ethical, policy and legal implications of advances in AI through an investment in an AI and Society research program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR),” it reads.

According to the CIFAR website, the program will fund research into policy that examines the implications of AI on the economy, government and society.

While minister Navdeep Bains declined an interview request, the statement from his office says they’re aware of emerging ethical challenges.

“It is clear that research into the social, economic and ethical implications of AI is only just beginning to get underway,” it said. W

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If your last interaction with wallpaper was the unforgettably tacky, impossible-toremove and overused versions that ran rampant in decor from the 1950s to early 80s, it’s time to reacquaint yourself with the concept.

Gone are the days of the kitschy peach or “dusty rose” papers that everyone’s mother and grandmother enveloped their (entire) home in.We’ve entered an era where wall coverings have become an ultra-chic feature in decor.

Wallpaper is my only exception to a completely whitewashed space.Within this type of wall treatment, my design pendulum swings the opposite direction to bring a room alive.With wallpaper, it’s all about pattern, palette and texture.

Today’s wallpaper collections are as diverse as design itself. For prints and patterns, we have seen the introduction of highly realistic faux-finish wallpapers, with which you can recreate the effects of anything from agate (seen on the

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moody emerald feature wall of one of my clients) to wood and concrete.

There has been a modern revival of florals, ranging in exaggerated scale from ultra tiny to completely oversized, like Roomcraft Design’s playful pink poppies, which has branched out to include other on-trend plant life — think palm leaves and cactus. And we’ve seen a playful twist with graphic and typographic papers that offer high-contrast shapes or lettering on repeat to create a striking effect, as with the Cole & Son fuchsia geometric print.

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seen great diversity in the colourways that are most popular with wallpaper. Everything from super brights to moody, saturated dark palettes to neutral tone-on-tone papers like the Cole & Son white-onwhite cubes have found their way into some of today’s most stylish spaces.

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Fashion giants LouisVuitton and Gucci have just banned super-skinny models, butVancouver FashionWeek is ahead of the curve. It’s encouraging the casting of models of different sizes for its Spring/Summer 2018 showcase. “Vancouver is a city built with different cultures and diversity.We want to keep the same appeal,” saysVFW founder Jamal Abdourahman.VFW takes place Sept. 18-26 and will this year showcase 40 local designers and 50 global ones.

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First Pick Handmade, a new two-day pop-up at Heritage Hall, Main Street, runs Sept. 16-17.The 3,300-square-foot “boutique department store” will feature 29 fashion and accessories designers for men, women and kids. All are Canadian, and many come from the slow fashion movement. Our picks are both from Vancouver.

Anderson’s Boots makes rugged but cool-looking footwear from vegan leather. Hetki / A Moment does Scandinavianinspired made-to-order garments. Entry is $3. Find out more at firstpickhandmade. com.

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with their client’s stunning bathroom), we have also seen the rise of finishes like metal adornment, sandy texture and (my personal fave) vinyl wallpapers.

Vinyls have found their fundamental place in design, not just based on the visual effect of their texture, but also on the functionality the material offers.With a rubbery, resistant finish, vinyls are easily wipeable (i.e., kid friendly) and are also moisture resistant, making them an ideal choice for kitchens or bathrooms, as seen in my last home with a pretty shiborieffect ribbed vinyl.

Overall, wallpaper has become the “built-in” artwork to design. It offers a creative foray into expression, colour and pattern combinations to suit any style personality and a broad spectrum of variety that is likely to ensure individuality and exclusivity. Unlike painting with “cloud white,” you’re almost guaranteed that you’ll be the only kid on the block with your chosen paper.

With permanent and removable options on the market (making it viable for homeowners and renters alike), wallpaper has embraced its revival into modern design. W

Hetki / A Moment will be at First Pick. Jason Tam photo because the beauty industry absolutely needs more makeup developed by women of colour. It doesn’t disappoint.

The collection comprises 16 products including foundations in 40 different shades, contour/concealers, brushes, oil-blotting sheets and a universally flattering nude lipgloss. Bonus:The whole range is cruelty free.

UNIQLO OPENS SOON IN METROTOWN

Another day, another Japanese fashion retailer opens in Metrotown.The new Uniqlo store will occupy 20,000 square feet and sell men’s, women’s and children’s fashion.The brand is probably best known for its practical outer- and innerwear. Mustbuys include packable Ultra Light Down jackets and Heattech base layers that are perfect for skiers and hikers. W

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Why everyone’s falling for Sons of Vancouver’s liqueur Joanne Sasvari The Alchemist

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What might just be Vancouver’s coolest cocktail lounge isn’t in a fancy hotel or a downtown hipster hangout.

Heck, it isn’t even in Vancouver and it isn’t, for that matter, actually a bar.

Sons of Vancouver is a micro-distillery located in the industrial area behind North Vancouver’s Canadian Tire.

On weekends, its co-owners serve classic cocktails and tiki drinks in their 12-seat tasting room. If you haven’t heard much about them, you soon will. Bartenders-turned-distillers James Lester and Richard Klaus have so far produced three products – a wheatbased vodka, chili-flavoured vodka and amaretto – and have rye whisky quietly aging in barrels. Of all those, a little surprisingly, it’s the amaretto that’s grabbed the world’s attention.

A couple of weeks ago, when Royal Dinette’s Kaitlyn Stewart won the Diageo Reserve World Class competition in Mexico, she used the Sons of Vancouver’s No. 82 Amaretto in a signature cocktail she called Spilt Milk.

When Esquire magazine ran the recipe on its website, the phone began to ring in North Van. “It’s a pretty big deal for

James Lester of Sons of Vancouver with the No. 82 Amaretto, which recently got some global attention. Dan Toulgoet photo us,” says Lester. “I definitely sent that article to my mom.”

Amaretto is a sweet, nutty liqueur that often gets little respect, thanks to its ubiquitous use in all those questionable drinks that were popular back in the 1980s:Think Alabama Slammer, Blow Job, Orgasm, Flaming Dr. Pepper, Amaretto Sour. And don’t forget Blueberry Tea: “It’s my grandmother’s favourite cocktail,” Klaus says.

Amaretto is considered an almond liqueur but, Lester points out, “That’s not quite true.” It is actually made with bitter almonds, also known as almond kernels, which are inedible, in part, because they contain trace amounts of cyanide. (Rest assured, it doesn’t make its way into the liqueur.) Amaretto originated in the area around Saronno,

Italy, possibly in the 1850s or maybe as far back as the 16th century, depending on which story you prefer.

Although many commercial brands are syrupy sweet, the name means “a little bitter” and a quality amaretto should be a delicious balance of sweet, bitter and spice.

But it’s not exactly trendy.

So why would two bartenders planning to open a whisky distillery want to produce amaretto, of all things?

“We’re big classic cocktail guys and amaretto is in a lot of older cocktails,” says Lester. Adds Klaus: “Basically, any whisky cocktail that calls for simple syrup, you can replace it with amaretto and it will be a better cocktail.”

They started with a recipe from Lester’s mom. From there it took them 82 tries to

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get the recipe right, hence the name. What they concocted is a well balanced blend of blackberry honey, demerara sugar, vanilla, bitter orange oil and Turkish bitter almond extract. “We’d love to use B.C. apricots, but the season is so short here and the quality isn’t as consistent,” says Klaus.

Local bartenders have fallen in love with the No. 82, and you can find it on back bars all over the city as well as in specialty liquor stores, where it retails for about $40.

Of course, you could also venture across the bridge to the distillery one weekend.

There you can enjoy the amaretto in a number of cocktails, including a special one on tap that’s made with prosecco, amaretto and amaro from The Woods distillery, which is opening across the alley in the next few weeks.

“We’ve been really lucky with the amaretto,” Lester says. “We’re safely an amaretto distillery at this point.”

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BOURBON SOUR “This is one of my favourite cocktails to make,” says James Lester, co-owner of the Sons of Vancouver Distillery in North Vancouver. His method of shaking the egg white with a single ice cube makes the froth impressively thick and rich.

• 1 egg white • 1 oz (30 mL) Sons of Vancouver No. 82 Amaretto • ½ oz (15 mL) cask-strength

bourbon (Lester prefers Booker’s) • ½ oz (15 mL) lime juice • 2 drops angostura bitters Place the egg white in a cocktail shaker with one large ice cube.

Shake vigorously until the ice has melted – this could take a little while. Add the amaretto, bourbon and lime juice and shake for exactly eight seconds.

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@FoodgirlFriday In 1967, Charles de Gaulle, then-president of France, uttered a controversial phrase while on a state visit to Canada. From a balcony in Montreal, he yelled “Vive le Québec libre!” to the masses below. Canadian-French relations subsequently went through a brief rough patch.

Québec has always been a bit “other” in our country’s cultural landscape, even while being a founding root. As for the food, while French cuisine can be found in any city a mari usque ad mare, Québécois food is a bit harder to experience – and no, I’m not counting poutine. An entire cuisine should not be defined by one dish, no matter how tasty.

In fact, until recently, the cuisine of la belle provence couldn’t be found at all in Vancouver.Then, JC Poirier, master chef behind Ask for Luigi, Pizzeria Farina,The Pourhouse and Joe Pizza, decided a visit back to his roots might be a good idea.

The result is St. Lawrence.

The tiny corner space that took over the former Big Lou’s

The food at St. Lawrence doesn’t hold back on the sauces.

Contributed photo Butcher’s shop in Railtown has been reimagined by Craig Stanghetta, that restaurant design darling. Framed photos of Poirier as a child line the walls, along with brass lamp fixtures and curtained shelves over the eating bar. Cushioned chairs surround dark wood tables, plates are monogrammed and there’s a lot of that lovely fleur-de-lis blue. It’s small and spacious, brash and elegant, loud yet not obnoxious.

The food follows the same ethos.There is an unabashedly over-the-top use of sauce here.

And butter. And cream. And cheese. Unapologetically lush, it’s also food that demon-

strates an inordinate amount of technique and care.

Take the smoked bison ($18). It’s brined for almost a week, then braised and cold smoked. Finished in the pan and served with sauce Ravigote, a kind of buttery vinaigrette with eggs, chives, capers and olive oil, it’s tender, juicy and well seasoned.

The daily terrine is another must-try. One night it’s rabbit with apricots, another, a porkfoie combo that elicits more than a few heartfelt groans.

Don’t look to find any poutine here. Instead, you can try the Pomme Duchesse à la Royale ($12), an enor-

mous baked potato that is piped back into its crispy skin, loaded with cheese curds and placed in a gravy bath. It’s a thing of beauty, just go with it.

It paired perfectly with a special of stuffed pig’s trotter ($36), which was crammed with veal sweetbreads and large enough to feed two of us.

You can get a great sugar pie here ($11) but I recommend the rice pudding ($20).

Served in a large crystal bowl, drizzled with salted caramel and topped with candied pecans and tiny cinnamon bun-style cookies it’s enough to satiate four.

As for the service, it’s just like the food – excellent and homey.The front of house is led by the fantastic Michael Ziff (Chambar) and the bar is overseen by the talented Yacine Sylla (Chambar, Café Medina).While you will hear quite a few French accents, the primary language here is that of welcome.

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Options include deep-fried mushrooms with black garlic bagna cauda; crimini, morel and Portobello tart with fontina and grana Padano; ricotta gnocchi with grilled oyster mushroom and truffle butter; mushroom ravioli, wine-braised beef with truffle-mushroom risotto; and dessert. cibotrattoria.com

On Thursday, Sept. 14, Timber is celebrating the end of summer with a “down east” lobster supper. For $35, get a full lobster with all the fixings. There will also be draft beer specials and a Liquormen’s Ol’ Dirty lobster luge. Tickets via Eventbrite. timbervancouver.com On Sunday, Sept. 17, at 401 Industrial Ave., Here There, Commissary Connect and TeamChomp present Stacks on Stacks, an outdoor culinary event featuring up-and-coming Vancouver street food cooks, including The Dumpling King, Salt N Sear, Dipped Dough, and more. Tickets $40 via Eventbrite.

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From getting hit with the smells of fresh fruit and burning incense to the thrill of a good deal, some of Ernesto Gomez’s finest memories of growing up in Mexico City and Monterrey involve their many mercados.

The restaurateur gets that same sense of excitement these days when he’s cruising the Farmers Market at Nat Bailey Stadium to procure fresh ingredients for the menus at his downtown spots Fayuca and Chancho – but he’ll really attempt to flesh out the feel of his youth at this weekend’s inaugural Market Mexico at Robson Square.

“Going with my mom to the markets when I was just a kid, it was kind of a ritual, you know,” the exuberant event planner says while seated at a back booth at Fayuca. He recalls shopping adventures to produce stands and seafood markets throughout the week that would lead up to large

always a bunch of shit hanging from the ceiling,” Gomez says with a laugh, adding that you can expect to see plenty of elaborate Papel Picado designs as well as balloons, piñatas, and more. He adds, “Markets are about taking over spaces and going a little gung ho with it.”

While Gomez is looking forward to putting together future Market Mexico events, he also notes how online shopping has affected traditional market practices. “We might be the last generation to experience carrying a bag to a supermarket,” he says.

But Gomez remains excited about the community spirit the marketplace offers.

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Saturday’s pilot Market Mexico will be a free outdoor celebration that will unite various local and international vendors.The full list of participants has yet to be revealed for the event, which is a collaborative project between Arrival Agency, of which Gomez is a creative director, and the Mexico Tourism Board. Gomez does, however, drop hints that a Fayuca chef will be hawking traditional Oaxacan street food; that freshly made tortillas from Chancho filled with grilled foodstuffs will be available all day; and artisanal pottery and textiles from different regions of Mexico will be for sale, as well.

A Samsung-sponsored stand will give marketgoers a virtual-reality experience by piping in images from far-off bazaars. If the oculus rift isn’t your thing, keep in mind that the Vancouver event will try to match the esthetics.

“Every stall is a little different, but the one thing that is very consistent is that there’s

Fall is around the corner!

The craft beer industry in B.C. has come along way since Frank Appleton first started making beer in converted dairy equipment at the now defunct Troller Pub in Horseshoe Bay more than 35 years ago.

MichaelTymchuk, 54, has been there pretty much from the beginning.The Cumberland Brewing Company coowner and brewmaster got his start in the 1980s at Spinnakers and has had a hand in setting up craft breweries across Western Canada and Asia.

Meanwhile, Gladstone Brewing Co.’s Tak Guenette, 28, is one of a new breed of brewers who have been able to focus their attention on pushing the limits of brewing.

Both ended up in the Comox Valley, and both are big believers in the community craft brewery model.

Growler: So how did you get into brewing?

Michael Tymchuk: I started at Spinnakers, but as a sous chef.That was 1987, and I was there for five years, 2½ cooking and 2½ brewing.

Growler: It’s interesting your background was in cooking.

Tymchuk: Hey, it is just a big pot of soup you have to look after carefully. ... So then I founded Wild Rose Brewing in Calgary in 1996, and in between I helped start up 16

different breweries. ... I came out here and opened a pizza shop because I needed a break from beer for a few years, and that’s when [business partner] Darren [Adam] found me.

We met him and his family, and as the story goes, he got in his car that night and told his wife, “I’m going to open a brewery with that guy.”

Growler: What about you Tak? Tak Guenette: I’m just a homebrewer that got lucky. I started homebrewing in 2010 with VanBrewers [homebrewing club] and my first job was with Steamworks Brewpub under Conrad Gmoser in 2012. Conrad left after about a year for Brassneck, so I took over for about a year and eight months. I just got married and I was looking for something a bit different and Parallel 49 was looking for a new brewer, so that was fortuitous. ... I did that for about a year and a half then moved out here without a job and lucked out that there was a position available at Gladstone.

Growler: Michael, tell me about some of the changes you’ve seen in the craft beer industry over the past 30 years.

Tymchuk: All the old styles are used up, so we’re making up new ones as we go. It’s the fearlessness of Tak’s generation.When I was training, lactobacillus, pediococcus, are you kidding me? They were absolutely verboten in a brewery. It was death! And now they are goofing around with them like it’s candy, that’s the biggest change.

Growler: Tak, tell me about the effect you’ve seen of the craft brewers that came before you.

Guenette:Without the older guard we wouldn’t have a lot of stuff in place, like people interested in beer, or the training. Moving to the tasting lounge model has actually made it viable for small breweries.The revenue is one thing, but also having people sit down and try beers they haven’t had before, the social aspect of that. It’s a better model.

Tymchuk:The growler has changed everything.We don’t have to package beer anymore, and 38 per cent of our beer leaves the building in glass, and that is a game-changer.

Growler: So what do you see for the future of craft beer in B.C., five, 10 years down the road?

Guenette: I think if you look at Portland, you see a lot more niche breweries.

Breweries that are just doing sours, for example.Vancouver is already getting to that point where there’s a saturation of breweries that are doing a bit of everything, and I think we’ll start to see breweries that are strictly IPAs, or strictly sours, or strictly strong beers.

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Drafted sixth overall by the Edmonton Oilers back in 2007, Sam Gagner entered the NHL as an 18-year-old.

He spent seven seasons in Edmonton – most notably recording an eight-point game against the Chicago Blackhawks on Feb. 2, 2012 After short stints with Arizona and Philadelphia, Gagner’s 50 points with the Columbus Blue Jackets last season marked a career high.

He was used primarily as a power-play specialist – 18 of his points came with a man advantage.

Gagner has a relationship with Newell Brown and was used on the power play during his season in Arizona with the Coyotes.

In conversation with TSN’s Bob McKenzie last week, Vancouver general manager Jim Benning suggested that the right-shot Gagner may start the season skating on a line with Daniel and Henrik Sedin.

Originally drafted 20th overall by the NewYork Rangers in 2008, Michael Del Zotto is a strong skater with good power-play instincts.

He has been brought in to add some scoring punch to a group of defencemen that scored just 22 goals collectively last season.

Injuries have been an issue for Del Zotto, who hasn’t appeared in more than 67 games in any of the past four seasons.

He was also healthy-scratched 11 times with the Philadelphia Flyers last year.

A fun-loving guy who DJs on the side and has been known to hang with Tyler Seguin during the offseason, Del Zotto’s a big personality who says he’s ready to take on a leadership role in Vancouver this year.

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The Canucks’ new goaltending acquisition is practically a mirror image of the team’s incumbent, Jacob Markstrom.

Both are towering 27-year-old Swedes – Markstrom checks in at 6-foot-6 while Nilsson is 6-foot-5. Markstrom has played 108 career NHL games; Nilsson has played 78.

Nilsson backed up Markstrom when Sweden won the bronze medal in Saskatoon at the 2010 World Junior Championship.

Nilsson had a strong year in Buffalo last season backing up another Swede, Robin Lehner.

His .923 save percentage tied him with stars like Carey Price and Matt Murray, ranking him in the top 10 among netminders who played at least 20 games.

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Rachel Langer had already written thousands of words for television by that morning in February 2017 when she cracked open her computer to write the most personal story she had to tell: her long journey with endometriosis.

It wasn’t the first time the Vancouver screenwriter had shared something of herself in her writing – in an episode of CBC’s This Life, for which she later won the 2017 Leo Award for Best Screenwriting in a Dramatic Series, she drew upon her own experience with grief to inform how the characters dealt with loss – but this would be the first time she’d laid out something so private for public consumption.

Endometriosis is a disorder in which tissue that normally lines the inside of the uterus grows outside of it. It can cause unrelenting pain.

As a woman in a part of the industry where women are staggeringly underrepresented (in 2016, theWriters’ Guild of America said just 29 per cent of television screenwriters were

women), Langer had “always been terrified to speak out” about her endometriosis, she says during a recent interview.

“People are always looking for a reason to say, ‘No, you’re not the right person to hire.’’’

Langer had always worked hard to bring her A-game to every television project, and just as hard to keep her condition a secret. But after nearly 10 years of silence, Langer was compelled to speak out.

“I thought, ‘You know what?

I don’t want to hide this part of who I am because it’s accurate and I didn’t do anything wrong,’” says Langer.

The essay – entitled “3 surgeries, fiery pain, dismissive docs: My life with endometriosis” – was subsequently picked up by Medium and Chatelaine.The response was overwhelming and rewarding.

“What shocked me the most was how many women [came] forward and said, ‘Thank Christ, I’m not alone,’” marvels Langer. As for the response from within the industry, “the women were amazing,” says Langer. “I got some of the same from men, although guys, they’re just not as comfortable saying, ‘You’re talking about your uterus; good for you!’ And that’s OK...

I’ve felt really liberated.”

By Rob Brezsny

Rachel Langer won a 2017 Leo Award for her screenwriting.

Contributed photo As in her off-screen life, identity and speaking truth to character are hallmarks of Langer’s screenwriting.

“I can never not tell an identity story,” says Langer, whose writing credits include Aeternus, Continuum, Olympus, 2018’s Reboot reboot, and the highly anticipated GhostWars, which premieres Oct. 5.

“It’s a pervasive theme in my life, of finding who you are and how that’s not a fixed mark and how that’s going to grow and expand and change.” W • Ghost Wars premieres on SyFy on Oct. 5. Reel People will have more from a recent Ghost Wars set visit closer to air.

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Two animals are pictured prominently on Australia’s coat of arms: the kangaroo and the large flightless bird known as the emu. One of the reasons they were chosen is that both creatures rarely walk backward. They move forward or not at all. Australia’s founders wanted this to symbolize the nation’s pledge to never look back, to remain focused on advancing toward the future. The coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to make a similar commitment, Aries. Is there a new symbol you might adopt to inspire your intention?

“Dear Dr. Astrology: I’m feeling lost, but am also feeling very close to finding my new direction. It hurts! It would be so helpful if I could just catch a glimpse of that new direction. I’d be able to better endure the pain and confusion if I could get a tangible sense of the future happiness that my pain and confusion are preparing me for. Can you offer me any free advice? — Lost Libra.”

Dear Libra: The pain and confusion come from the dying of the old ways. They need to die a bit more before the new direction will reveal itself clearly. I predict that will happen soon – no later than Oct. 1.

The Simpsons is an animated sitcom that will soon begin its 29th consecutive year on TV. During its run, it has told more than 600 stories. The creators of another animated sitcom, South Park, once did an episode entitled “Simpsons Already Did It,” which referenced their feelings that it was hard to come up with new tales because their rival had already used so many good ones. I bring this up, Taurus, because I suspect your life story will soon be spinning out novel plots that have never before been seen, not even on The Simpsons or South Park. You could and should be the Best Storyteller of the Month.

Welcome to “Compose Your Own Oracle,” a special edition of Free Will Astrology. Departing from tradition, I’m temporarily stepping aside so you can have the freedom to write the exact horoscope you want.

Normally, you might be in danger of falling victim to presumptuous arrogance if you imagined you could wield complete control over how your destiny unfolds.

But in the days ahead, that rule won’t be as unyielding, because cosmic forces will be giving you more slack than usual. Fate and karma, which frequently impel you to act according to patterns that were set in place long ago, are giving you at least a partial respite.

To get the maximum benefit out of “Compose Your Own Oracle,” identify three plot developments you’d like to weave into a self-fulfilling prophecy for your immediate future. Then start weaving.

Love won’t exactly be free in the coming weeks, but there should be some good deals. And I’m not referring to risky black-market stuff obtained in back alleys, either. I mean straightforward liaisons and intriguing intimacy at a reasonable cost. So if you’re comfortably mated, I suggest you invest in a campaign to bring more comedy and adventure into your collaborative efforts. If you’re single, wipe that love-starved look off your face and do some exuberant window-shopping. If you’re neither comfortably mated nor single, money may temporarily be able to buy you a bit more happiness.

The current state of your fate reminds me of the sweet confusion alluded to in Octavio Paz’s poem, “Between Going and Staying”: “All is visible and elusive, all is near and can’t be touched.” For another clue to the raw truth of your life right now, I’ll quote the poet William Wordsworth. He spoke of “fleeting moods of shadowy exultation.”

Is the aura described by Paz and Wordsworth a problem that you should try to fix? Is it detrimental to your heroic quest? I don’t think so.

Just the opposite, really: I hope you can hang out for a while in this pregnant mystery – between the yes and the no, between the dark and the light, between the dream and the reality. It will help you learn what you’ve been too restless to tune in to in the past.

The imminent future will be a favourable time for refurbished models and revived originals.

They are likely to be more fun and interesting the second time around. I suspect that this will also be an auspicious phase for substitutes and alternatives. They may even turn out to be better than the so-called real things they replace. So be artful in formulating Plan B and Plan C, Leo. Switching over to backups may ultimately bring out more of the best in you and whisk you toward your ultimate goal in unexpected ways.

In the coming weeks, you might want to read the last few pages of a book before you decide to actually dive in and devour the whole thing. I also suggest you take what I just said as a useful metaphor to apply in other areas. In general, it might be wise to surmise the probable outcomes of games, adventures, and experiments before you get totally involved. Try this fun exercise: Imagine you are a psychic prophet as you evaluate the long-range prospects of any influences that are vying to play a role in your future.

Almost two-thirds of us confess that if we are alone, we might sip milk directly from the carton rather than first pouring it into a glass. Fourteen per cent of us have used milk as part of our sexual activities. One out of every five of us admit that we have “borrowed” someone else’s milk from the fridge at work. Most shockingly, four per cent of us brag that we have blown milk out our noses on purpose. I expect that in the next two weeks, you Sagittarians will exceed all these norms. Not just because you’ll be in the mood to engage in mischievous experiments and playful adventures with milk, but because you’re likely to have a loosey-goosey relationship with almost everything.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to raise funds in support of political prisoners, or to volunteer at a soup kitchen, or to donate blood at a blood bank. In fact, any charitable service you perform for people you don’t know will be excellent for your physical and mental health. You can also generate vivid blessings for yourself by being extra thoughtful, kind, and generous toward people you care for. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when unselfish acts will yield maximum selfish benefits.

In his novel The Jungle, muckraker Upton Sinclair (18781968) exposed the abominable hygiene and working conditions of the meat-packing industry. The uproar that followed led to corrective legislation by the U.S. Congress. Sinclair remained devoted to serving the public good throughout his career. He liked to say that the term “social justice” was inscribed on his heart.

Drawing from his inspiration, Aquarius, I suggest you decide what your soul’s main motto is – and imagine that it is written on your heart. Now is a perfect moment in time to clarify your life’s purpose, and intensify your commitment to it; to devote even more practical, tender zeal to fulfilling the reason you were born.

You know that “patch of bothersome weeds” growing right in the middle of your life? Is it really a patch of bothersome weeds? Or is it perhaps a plot of cultivated blooms that once pleased you but has now turned into a puzzling irrelevancy? Or how about this possibility: Is it a chunk of languishing beauty that might flourish and please you again if it were cared for better? Those are excellent questions for you to pose in the coming days, Pisces. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, it’s time for you to decide on the future of this quizzical presence.

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